 Poster: A snowHead
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The title of this thread should be changed to
10000 Brits happily enjoying Switzerland
Switzerland welcomed them and allow those who wish to leave to leave. Whoever remain are because they prefer being "stuck" there than in Britain.
Get over it!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@BobinCH, your case is different to those that have recently gone out there for a holiday, or am I mistaken?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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re BobinCH and 'irresponsible' - I think sort out the circumstances before shouting. Bob and family simply are complying with local regulations, and as people living in CH rather than travelling there are not importing any virus into CH. On that basis, hold back with the shouting.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm not getting at Bob, he is normally a great poster & source of info. I may be mistaken but I assumed those were UK holiday makers as that was the tread was about, if they live there then you are correct they are not transporting the virus.
As for the affects of no one travelling, well the import of the new strain from a South African tourist into the UK & then onto Europe, answers my thought on that.
I'm not allowed to go to the local beach to walk my dog, but someone from halfway round the globe is! Something is not right there.
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| Jonny996 wrote: |
I'm not allowed to go to the local beach to walk my dog, but someone from halfway round the globe is! Something is not right there. |
As crazy as that is, that's your (U.K.) problem. It is of no concern to people who live in CH. Contact your MP.
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| Jonny996 wrote: |
I'm not getting at Bob, he is normally a great poster & source of info. I may be mistaken but I assumed those were UK holiday makers as that was the tread was about, if they live there then you are correct they are not transporting the virus.
As for the affects of no one travelling, well the import of the new strain from a South African tourist into the UK & then onto Europe, answers my thought on that.
I'm not allowed to go to the local beach to walk my dog, but someone from halfway round the globe is! Something is not right there. |
No I was responding to this post flaming Verbier restaurants and replied as I am there and the restaurants are adhering to the rules from what I can see.
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| @brianatab, I agree selfish and foolhardy. The Swiss restauranteurs In verbier don’t give a damn accepting bookings from brits who should be quarantining . Reports that they are packed with no regard to the required social distancing . Happy to take the cash . |
You’ll all be delighted to know that restaurants have now closed as of 26th December so it’ll be sarnies outside in -15 today 
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@BobinCH, lunch is such a wonderful partof the ski experience @Jonny996, why can't you go to your local beach?
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@Frosty the Snowman, even though it’s only 4 miles away, it’s in a different council area & we are not allowed to travel out of our area
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Hyperbole, generalizations, and self righteousness. I didn't encounter any of that in Switzerland three weeks ago. A big sign saying "This is it" with nearly a metre of snow underneath is positively downplaying matters.
If you post a figure, or a fact, put a note linking or explaining the source. Otherwise you're doing a splendid impression of a shopkeeper confronted with a dead parrot.
As for your moralizing, it is the sort of herd stupidity that leads to people running around after discarded shoes or gourds of some poor unfortunate who had the misfortune to speak the wrong thing at the wrong moment.
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@Headengel2020, Did you get a dictionary for Christmas
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You know it makes sense.
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| Jonny996 wrote: |
| @Headengel2020, Did you get a dictionary for Christmas |
Yes, in the same package as Reading for Dummies, which I'm really struggling to get into.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I was sufficiently intrigued by the discarded gourds to Google them - to no avail. I suspect that English is not @Headengel2020's first language.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Reading for dummies - Is that Basingstoke?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@pam w, I suspect shoes and discarded gourds is a reference to "The Life of Brian"
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I suspect shoes and discarded gourds is a reference to "The Life of Brian"
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Ah! OK.
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@Frosty the Snowman, 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Frosty the Snowman, Excellent
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Reading for dummies - Is that Basingstoke? |
No, that would be Slough.
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| Headengel2020 wrote: |
Hyperbole, generalizations, and self righteousness. I didn't encounter any of that in Switzerland three weeks ago. A big sign saying "This is it" with nearly a metre of snow underneath is positively downplaying matters.
If you post a figure, or a fact, put a note linking or explaining the source. Otherwise you're doing a splendid impression of a shopkeeper confronted with a dead parrot.
As for your moralizing, it is the sort of herd stupidity that leads to people running around after discarded shoes or gourds of some poor unfortunate who had the misfortune to speak the wrong thing at the wrong moment. |
Consider the birds. They don't have Covid and they're happy.
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@iainm,
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Consider the birds. They don't have Covid and they're happy.
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But they have avian flu!
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| RobinS wrote: |
@iainm,
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Consider the birds. They don't have Covid and they're happy.
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But they have avian flu! |
It got the Norwegian Blue...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Oh they've left for France 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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May the Lord preserve us from the gutter press deciding to make an example of people.
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You know it makes sense.
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British embassy website says you are allowed to leave Switzerland during quarantine if you take protective measures, driving your own car would be considered one.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Reading for dummies - Is that Basingstoke? |
No, that would be Slough. |
Pronounced, “sluff” presumably?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Come friendly bombs, rain on........
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| prometheus wrote: |
| Come friendly bombs,fall on........ |
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@BenW_86, surely, if placed into quarantine by the local Authority, you would need their permission?
Hopefully, anybody who has symptoms (at least 1, so probably more of same group) has not gone awol.
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Yes, they also said speak with your local authority so the advice varies between Cantons.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Reading for dummies - Is that Basingstoke? |
Thanks - this thread was heading the wrong way (like sick Brits flocking to France)
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@brianatab, I was wondering about that too.
But- 1. The hotels said they didn't notice- didn't notce hundreds of people clomping up and down sytairs with luggage and packing cars and taxis in the middle of the night.
2. the statement from Bagnes was very sympathetic to the Brits:"It was when they saw the meal trays remained untouched that the hoteliers noticed that the customers had gone," he told the ATS news agency.
"We can't blame them. In most cases, quarantine was untenable. Imagine four people staying in a hotel room of 20 square metres.”
3. Brits makes up a huge percentage of the custom and bring in gazzillions of CHuffs.
So I suspect that everything will be great.
I wonder what the reaction would be with a different demographic?
He added that the tourists left feeling "a little angry with Switzerland" and with the sense of having been "trapped".
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Story has made BBC radio 2 news. Just need Jeremy Vine to get onto his middle class bashing
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The UK press is gleefully headlining Brits as 'Fleeing' from Verbier.
You 'flee' a tsunami, or an earthquake, bombings, or strafing by fighter 'planes. You 'pack up and leave' or perhaps 'give up on' a holiday when you realise you can get in your car and be home in 12 hours rather than be confined to a hotel room under less safe conditions than at home.
The usual hack journo clichés.
And a bit of schadenfreude always goes down well with the British public.
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@LaForet,
They are fleeing switzerland - where they are supposed to quarantine for 10 days upon arrival.
Most news outlets are running the same headline.
BBC, Sky, Guardian. Daily Mail running 'Escape'.
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